Word: grounds
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Converse also has few of the grueling routines that have forged the Citadel's reputation as a rigorous training ground for South Carolina's military and business elite, she said...
...council also honored Shochana Pakciarz for her work as the executive director of Project Bread, an organization which fights childhood hunger. Pakciarz, who earned her master's degree from the Harvard School of Education, has done ground-breaking research on childhood hunger and nutrition, council members said...
...sequence of the shots, illustrating the intent to kill and bolstering the prosecution's claim that the victims were shot in the knee because the brothers were trying to make the murders look like a Mafia hit. The defense tried unsuccessfully to block McCarthy's testimony on the ground that he has no experience in ballistics or wounds. "McCarthy," said Abramson, suggesting the witness may be something other than he appears, "is the prosecution's Fuhrman...
...work unfolds at a deliberate, ruminative tempo and in accord with a growing sense of inner logic, quite unlike the fits and starts by which most artists develop. By degrees, in 1911-12, the interweaving of Mondrian's fruit trees ceases to look like energetic lacework on a plain ground; the space between the branches is energized--it presses forward, no longer a void but a continuum of shape as active as the branches themselves...
Simpson picked NBC, his old employer, as the venue for his first interview largely at the urging of entertainment president Don Ohlmeyer, a friend of Simpson's who had visited him regularly in jail. NBC News president Andrew Lack worked out ground rules for the interview with Simpson--no questions were to be off limits--and picked Couric and Brokaw to do the questioning. One passed-over aspirant for the plum assignment, Bryant Gumbel (Couric's Today co-anchor and another friend of Simpson's), took the rejection hard; he didn't show up at work the rest...